However, the requirements of the so-called drug identification number or the natural health product identification number, with high fees, with high establishment licensing fees, is ultimately not going to stop the consumer from getting these products.

The industry has made all efforts possible to assist agriculture in their new program by providing existing data and letters of support, shipping out product samples for the upcoming growing season, and advising on the application methods of these products for any given crop (1135) By now, the minor use office has assumed the following responsibilities: receives complaints and requests for information from growers, processors, provinces, industry, and scientists, and resolves these by either finding the information within PMRA or identifying new sources of information that shed a different light on a given issue and allow the development ...[+++] of a solution; clarifies misunderstandings of procedures and responsibilities concerning the registration of minor uses; shows small companies and the pesticide industry, in particular American companies, the path into PMRA; elaborates proposed timelines for PMRA, Agriculture, industry, and provinces to minimize the delay between the identification of a project and the registration of its new use; produces templates, to which I previously referred, to facilitate the production of submissions of acceptable quality so that delays caused by the need for clarification can be avoided; produces templates for study protocols, field notebooks, and study reports to assist agriculture and other sponsors in the production of high-quality data packages that will conform to OECD norms for good laboratory practice and that will be acceptable to PMRA and IR-4 and the Environmental Protection Agency in the U.S.; prepares a training plan about the registration process for study directors from Agriculture and Forestry; supports growers and provinces in the identification of potential pest control products; establishes tracking systems that allow us to follow the advance of any given project through the different parts of the process, from the identification of a need to the availability of the product on the shelf; and advises PMRA on differ ...

In the case of New Zealand butter referred to in Annex III(A) under quota number 09.4589, the original product identification list shall be used for this purpose.

(f) "product identification list": a list which identifies, for each lot, the quota number of its corresponding IMA 1 certificate, the production plant or factory and the cypher or cyphers, and which also provides a description of the butter.

Even in the absence of a shipping name or a product identification number or a placard or label the product may be identified by contacting the Canadian Transport Emergency Centre or CANUTEC using any of the following information: the flight number; the call sign if the goods are being transported by ship; reporting marks and car number if it is being transported by rail; carrier and truck or trailer number and carrier and licence plate number if it is being transported by road.

CANUTEC is able to immediately provide the relevant information by accessing its database through the use of key words such as the UN number, the product identification number or shipping name required on the transportation of dangerous goods shipping label and shipping documents (1155 ) Also, part VII of the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act requires that shippers and importers of certain dangerous goods have an emergency response assistance plan, ERAP, approved by Transport Canada.